“I have no time to blog”. “I have nothing to blog about”…. that’s what I often hear people say about why they don’t keep a blog. To some extent, I can understand that. We’re so distracted with our lives now it becomes harder and harder to sit in front of a computer to write. Heck… even if we do manage to make the time to sit in front of the computer, we often find ourselves too mentally tired to blog. I’ve been there. But I have been blogging for 8 years now (7 on this blog and another 1 year in Leng Mou) and I’ve never stopped.
Why do I keep blogging?
It’s actually for myself. I blog because I want to capture the memories I go through in my life.I blog because my blog is like a diary to me. Yes I’m active on Twitter, Instagram and even Facebook but none of these provide the room a blog entry allows for me to document events in my life. Tonight I looked in my blog archives 5 years back to these moments of my life…
When Ming and I started Nuffnang
When I was with girlfriend I had before Shorty
When I met a tycoon in the early days
When we started Nuffnang Australia
When Shorty and I started dating
When I closed a shoe shop for her
And some of the early conversations we had on MSN
And when Shorty said she would kill herself if I married a second wife
When I realized how short Shorty really was
Reading those entries brought me on a walk down memory lane. It wasn’t just what happened or the pictures I took… it was the way I wrote it and how it really shed light on the way I felt and how I was as a person 4-6 years ago.
Fighter’s birth gave me a whole different perspective though. Instead of blogging for myself, I realized that I’m blogging for Fighter too. I blog because I want Fighter (and my other future kids) to have access to logs on how their father was like in his earlier years if they wanted to know. Wouldn’t that be cool? If our parents had kept blogs in the 60s and 70s and we could get a peek into their daily lives when they were our age. Where they used to eat, where they dated… what they used to do for fun… the friends they hung out with.. and more importantly, the challenges they had and the ups and downs of their lives. I know I would want to… and that’s what I hope to leave Fighter one day in the form of this blog.
The sad part is that sometimes I do miss certain parts of my life because well… I can’t remember everything I go through to remember to blog about it at the end of the day. That’s why I’m on Dayre now because Dayre allows you to capture a moment or a thought right when it happens with your mobile phone and logs it into a blog for you. It makes blogging a lot easier, making you want to blog more frequently and capture more moments in your life.
This blog will always be here. It has so much of my thoughts and memories and will continue to do so. While Dayre will hold my daily life… Timothytiah.com will be where I share my conversations with Shorty, my deeper thoughts like this one… and more.
I hope that this blog entry convinces one or two people to blog whether in using Dayre or even starting a blogspot or Tumblr blog. Store your memories somewhere for yourself… and your future kids. Please leave a comment if this has made you wanted to blog. So I would know if I had made a different…. or not 🙂
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space